Re:The Art of Command Line (2015)
by vram22 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @11:03AM
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Right. But check what my script called m does :)
It uses col, but also redirects the cleaned-up output to a file named cmd.m (so you don't have to run that man command for the same command - like bash or other - each time), where cmd is the cmd you give to man as an arg. That file cmd.m is stored under your ~/man dir, which gets created first, with mkdir -p. More refinements possible, of course, but this was just a quick and dirty script I whipped up. For example, could check more for permission and other kinds of errors, not create the ~/man dir each time but only once, etc.
It uses col, but also redirects the cleaned-up output to a file named cmd.m (so you don't have to run that man command for the same command - like bash or other - each time), where cmd is the cmd you give to man as an arg. That file cmd.m is stored under your ~/man dir, which gets created first, with mkdir -p. More refinements possible, of course, but this was just a quick and dirty script I whipped up. For example, could check more for permission and other kinds of errors, not create the ~/man dir each time but only once, etc.